So You Think You're Not Guilty

Movie
Original title	So You Think You're Not Guilty
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1950
length	10 mins
Rod
Director	Richard L. Bare
script	Richard L. Bare
production	Gordon Hollingshead
music	William Lava
camera	Allen G. Siegler
cut	Rex Steele
occupation
George O'Hanlon : Joe McDoakes Phyllis Coates : Alice McDoakes Douglas Fowley : Convict Don C. Harvey : Officer Flanagan, traffic cop Fred Kelsey : prison guard Connoisseur G. Kemp : Alderman Nolan Leary : Judge Frank Marlowe : Joe's cellmate Jack Mower : Bailiff Willard Waterman : Prosecutor Paul Panzer : Alderman Ralph Sanford : jailer Ted Stanhope : Battin, Joe's defense attorney Charles Sullivan : prison guard

So You Think You're Not Guilty is an American short film from 1950 directed by Richard L. Bare . The leading roles are cast with George O'Hanlon and Phyllis Coates . The film received an Oscar nomination .

content

Just as Joe McDoakes passes a set of traffic lights , the light signal goes crazy and wanders up and down and back again. McDoakes, who is standing in the middle of the intersection, sees himself unable to react appropriately. A traffic policeman who comes along asks him for his papers, which McDoakes does not have with him. He is supposed to pay a $ 2 fine before being allowed to continue. However, he does not see this because he is an extremely stubborn man. He wants to prove to the world that he is not to blame and instead lets it come down to a court hearing in which he pleads "not guilty". When the verdict is announced, he thinks he cannot believe his ears because he is being sentenced to 10 years in prison.

production

Production notes

It is a Richard L. Bare production made by Vitaphone for Warner Bros. and filmed at Warner Bros. Burbank Studios.

The film is part of a film series of 63 short films made between 1942 and 1956, each of which began with So You… , also known as the Behind the Eight Fall series. George O'Hanlon played the role of Joe McDoake in the So You Want to Be… films, from 1948 Phyllis Coates was the woman at McDoake's side. The name Joe Doakes was a popular slang term in America for the average man at the time.

background

Edward Arnold and Victor Moore had published the sketch Pay the Two Dollars in MGM's Ziegfeld Follies in 1946 and in a revised version in an episode by Abbott and Costello in 1952 . Moore plays the stubborn man who ends up in prison because he doesn't want to pay the two dollars at all. This sketch was a highlight in 1936 on the Broadway show "George White's Scandals of 1936". Pay the Two Dollars became an idiom for making a mountain out of a molehill.

publication

So You Think You're Not Guilty premiered in the United States on April 15, 1950.

Award

Gordon Hollingshead was nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Short Film" (1 film role) at the Academy Awards in 1950 , but had to admit defeat to Jack Eaton and his film Aquatic House Party .

Web links

• So You Think You're Not Guilty in Internet Movie Database (English)
• So You Think You're Not Guilty at Turner Classic Movies (English)
• So You Think You're Not Guilty at themoviedb.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ So You Want to Be on the Radio (1948) Connections in the IMDb (English)
2. ↑ Pay the Two Dollars Sketch with Victor Moore and Edward Arnold (English)
3. ↑ Pay the Two Dollars at anthonybalducci.blogspot.de (English)
4. ↑ So You Think You're Not Guilt y at letterboxd.com (English)